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BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXI
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
BOOMING TO DRAFT
TOWN CANDIDATES
Democratic and Republican Cau
cuses Next Monday Night
at High School.
Filing Deadline Next Wednesday
Because of Wartime Legis
lation.
The customary between-elections
lethargy of Bluffton political circles
was fanned into unexpected activity
the latter part of last week when
party executive committeemen learned
that provisions of an unrepealed
emergency wartime measure require
that candidates for municipal offices
must file petitions by 6 p. m. Wed
nesday of next week.
With the deadline for filing only
a week away, local politics presented
a confused p’cture, as party chief
tans scrambled to get a full slate
of candidates on short notice.
If no contests develop on either
ticket it will be unnecessary to hold
a primary election here in May, but
the filing deadline must be observed
if contests develop and a primary is
to be held.
With the advanced filing deadline
generally unknown thruout the state
until Ohio election officials called
attention to the February 5 date,
Two party caucuses Demo
crat and Republican will be
held in separate rooms at the
high school building next Mon
day night at 7:30 o’clock to name
candidates for municipal offices.
Candidates for the primary must
file by 6 p. m. on Wednesday
night of next week.
Bluffton politicos were caught with
no plans for condidates, and are in
a position where they had only 10
days to draft party slates.
New Mayor, Clerk
Developments since work on party
tickets were started thus far, brought
announcements that Mayor W. A.
Howe and Town Clerk W. O. Geiger,
both unopposed on the 1945 ballots,
will not be condidates this year.
This leaves both parties with the
responsibility of drafting candidates
for the two principal municipal of
fices.
Other offices for which candidates
must file include town treasurer, six
seats on the municipal council and
three on the board of public affairs.
Not
in
Primary'
Not included in the primary, are
nominations for members of the
board of education and Richland
township offices which will be made
at party caucuses during the sum
mer.
Bluffton’s last municipal primary
was held in August, 1941, and no
primary was necessary in 1943 when
there were no contests on either
ticket.
Earlier filing this year is the re
sult of wartime legislation advancing
the primary election to May instead
of August, thereby throwing the fil
ing deadline in February instead of
May. The legislation was set up to
give servicemen overseas time in
which to vote, and no change has
been made so far in the emergency
status.
Bluffton Girl On
Radio Broadcast
Miss Barbara Jean Triplett, senior
in the Eastman School of Music,
Rochester, N., Y., daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Triplett of Campus
Drive, is beard every Wednesday
night at 7:30 o’clock in a series of
radio programs broadcast over the
Rochester station WHAM, 1250 kilo
cycles.
The Bluffton girl appears as a
marimba soloist in the program
which goes on the air under the
title of “House Party.”
Hancock Chorus To
Sing Here Sunday
A program of sacred music will
be presented in the First Mennonite
church at 7:30 p. m. Sunday night
by the Hancock County Chorus.
Local appearance of the group,
one of the finest in this area, is
Sponsored by the Bluffton Minister
ial association, and the churches of
the town and community will join in
the Sunday night service.
Organized 12 years ago, the Han
cock chorus presents an average of
about one program a month, except
during the summer season.- It is
composed of singers from all parts
of Findlay and Hancock county.
The chorus is directed by Russell
Barnhill, H. B. Dreisbach and Mrs.
Percel Parker.
Elizabeth Boehr Will
Take Post In Austria
Miss Elizabeth Boehr, former do
mestic science instructor at Bluffton
college,
welfare
Central
will leave for two years’
service with the Mennonite
Committee in Austria.
Boehr this week will go to
Pa., where headquarters of
Miss
Akron,
Mennonite Central Committee
maintained. After leaving Bluff
shc was for several years on
faculty at Heidelberg university
the
are
ton
the
in Tiffin.
BUTTER, CREAM
ANDOLEO DOWN
TO LOWER LEVEL
Butter and Oleo Sag Under Lev
els of Week Ago in Stores
Here.
Butterfat and Fluid Milk Are
Returning Less Cash to
Producers.
dropped
major break in prevailing high
ices for food.
In its decline from an early fall
high of nearly one dollar a pound,
I utter Wednesday morning was re
tailing as low as 67 cents here, a
drop of two cents since last week.
Oleo was keeping pace with the
downward trend of butter, priced at
36 cents a pound, after selling at 42
cents last Wednesday.
Butterfat Down
Meanwhile on the producers’ side
of the market adjustments were be
ing made to lower price levels. But
terfat at 63 cents was off three cents
from last week’s figure.
Fluid milk which brought $4.35
per hundred pounds in
dropped to $4.10 for the
of January, according to
Dairy Co. Price for the
of January will be posted early next
month.
Capital investment required for
farming in these days of high prices
have soared to such heights it not
only prevents many returned G. I.’s
from starting agricultural operations
but also has cut
farmers entering
time low.
the number of new
the field to an all­
At the lowest price, this means a
100-acre farm will involve the ex
penditure of $20,000 for land alone,
and in addition there must be suf
ficient working capital to operate in
the manner today’s modern farming
practices demand.
Sizeable Working Capital
For a 100-acre farm at least
$7,500 is needed in the form of
working capital for stock and equip
ment, according to practical farmers.
This will cover the average annual
investment
feed, seed
well as the
rent farm
year’s yield starts making a cash
return.
in machinery, livestock,
and other supplies, as
cash reserve to pay cur
expenses before
the
Satisfactory farm incomes cannot
be expected in these days without
proper stocking and equipment.
However, equipment may vary, ac
cording to the type of farming done,
It pays therefore to look into
the problem from all angles be
fore going into farming, includ
ing recommendations to:
1—Be sure to get some farm
experience before buying land.
This may come from working on
a farm, renting one or share
cropping.
Don’t buy a farm until you
know exactly what kind of farm
ing you expect to do.
3—Stay away from buying
until a substantial down pay
ment can be made and still leave
capital sufficient to equip and
operate. Avoid heavy indebted
ness at
for groin farming or hog farming
will require less working capital
than dairy farming, say farmers in
the Bluffton district.
the start. Burkholder
A breakdown of the working
capital investment shows the aver
age farm of about 100 acres will
need $140 for horses, $2,400 for
FOUR MORE NEW
HOUSES STARTED
HERE THIS MONTH
Renewal of Construction Activi
ty Does Not Await
val of Spring
on
forerun
West Elm street.
man
December
first half
the Page
last half
Soaring Prices Of Farm Land
Restrict Return Of Vets To Soil
Arri-
Prefab House Erected,
tions Started for
Other Homes
Founda
Two
more new
the year,
With the start of four
houses e the first of
Bluffton’s .evidential building boom
is not waiting for spring to bring
a renewed flurry of
tivity.
construction ac-
started during
two new resi
a prefabricated
Foundations were
the past week for
dences, erection of
house launched 10 days ago is near
ing completion, and a fourth house
will be moved to Bluffton this week
a foundation recently completed
the Forrest Hager
near the corporation
It will be erected by Clayton
Bucher, who built a house last fall
on Cherry street and sold it shortly
before the holidays.
In the Berryhill addition on West
Elm street, Clair Bucher has com
pleted the foundation for a house he
will move to Bluffton this week from
a location three miles west of town.
He will remodel the building after
it is on the foundation.
The fourth house started in the
Januai-y building flurry is a pre
fabricated structure nearing comple
tion on South Jackson street at the
rear of the Paul Clark lot. It is
being erected by Wade Shook, who
will occupy it with his family. Shook
is a son-in-law of Clark.
machinery and equipment, $2,700 for
productive livestock and $2,300 for
feed, seed and supplies. This is a
per acre investment of upwards of
$68.
In operating
working capital
ly the
basis,
much
basis.
land is the first
High cost of
deterrent to those who want to break
into the farming game on their own,
with most good farms in this area
selling at $200 an acre and upward.
a rented farm, the
will be approximate
a cash or crop-share
about two-thirds as
same on
but only
a livestock
if renting is on
Beginners
high prices,
urging those
Recommendations For
Because of prevailing
farm authorities are
who wish to become farmers to fol
low one of several plans alternative
to attempting to “buy into” the
picture now.
A father .nd son working agree
ment can solve the problem for
many. An operator-owner lease with
an overworked fanner who wants to
ease up on his load may provide
another means of
tions.
setting up opera-
is a 50-50 stock
gives great free-
Another “out”
share lease which
dom in a livestock problem, and the
age-old plan of starting as a hired
man remains a sound one, even tho
not too appealing in these days of
high factory wages. However, wages
paid to hired men these days are
at all-time high levels, and the ex
perience gained while so working is
invaluable.
Pirate Reserves
Win 11th Victory
Winning their 11th game in 13
starts, Bluffton High reserves best
ed Wapakoneta seconds, 27 to 16,
at Wapakoneta, Tuesday evening.
The Pirate understudies led at the
quarters: 8-2, 14 to 9 and 14 to 13.
Bracy and Wilch, with seven
points each, topped the scoring pa
rade for Bluffton. Moore got six,
Mathewson three and Burcky and
Herr two each. Also in the Bluffton
lineup were Balmer, Bauman, Nis
wander, Schmidt, Dunifon, Sommer
and
WEDDING LICENSE
A wedding license has been issued
to Clarence Kersker, Jr., of Findlay
and Dorothy Bassitt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Carl Bassitt of Orange
township.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1947
A trans-Atlantic airplane hop to
Dakar, Africa, was completed by
Miss Catherine Gratz, daughter of
Mrs. Peter Gratz, of South Jackson
street, who is returning to the mis
sion field in French JjVest Africa
where she previously spent five and
one-half years as a missionary.
According to a cablegram received
Tuesday by her mother. Miss Gratz
left New York City by plane at
4 p. m. Friday, Jan. 17, and arrived
the following Monday.
Traveling by boat and train it
will take another week to reach her
destination at Kankan, a sizable city
in French Guinea. The
there is operated by the
Missionary Alliance. She
a bookkeeper in the office.
Three From Bluffton
Are Hurt In Collision
residents were less seriously inj
last Saturday night when an s
mobile driven by Stanley E. Bas
er, local funeral home operator,
demolished in a two-car eollision
miles south of Beaverdam on
Dixie highway.
Catherine Gratz Completes Trans
Atlahtic Airplane Hop To Africa
mission
Christian
works as
disrupted
lities, the
Because the war had
normal transportation facil
Bluffton woman had remained at her
mission station 18 months longer
than the regular four-year term of
service, and did not return to this
country until a year ago last fall.
Streamlined Community Institute
To Be Continued Here Next Year
■rryhill, 18, son of Mr.
I. Berryhill, of West
Tered a broken bone ir
the
the
and
Basinger escaped injury in
crash, but Miss Carolyn Romey,
Kenneth Moser, 20, also occupants
of the Bluffton auto sustained facial
injuries and bruises.
Berryhill and Moser, who were
hitchhiking to Lima, had been pick
ed up by Basinger, enroute to that
city.
State highway patrolmen said the
mishap apparently occurred when
the Basinger automobile, a new mod
el Dodge sedan, was sideswiped by
a car driven by k 1 —u—■4 oo
of Ft. Wayne.
injured.
un
The Basinger car overturned twice
andlanded on» its top. It is in the
Augsburger garage at this place.
The injured were brough to the
Bluffton hospital in the Basinger
ambulance of Bluffton and the Chiles
ambulance of Lima. All except
Berryhill were released after receiv
ing first-aid treatment. After re
maining in the hospital Saturday
night, Berryhill was taken to his
home, Sunday.
Lt. Yoakam’s Body
Has Not Arrived
Body of Lt. Wayne Yoakam en
route here from Germany had not
arrived here Wednesday morning,
members of the family stated. No
further word had been received in
the matter, they added, since a
telegram arrived two weeks ago stat
ing that the body was enroute from
Bremerhaven to New York.
Lt. Yoakam died in Germany De
cember 8 of injuries resulting from
a grade crossing accident when a
jeep in which he was riding was
struck by a train. Funeral arrange
ments are incomplete pending arrival
of the body.
Findlay College
Trounces Beavers
Findlay college basketball team
defeated Bluffton college 77 to 40
here Tuesday night. The visitors
led all the way, holding a 31 to 15
advantage at half time.
In the first half the Bluffton Beav
ers were held scoreless from the field
for 17 minutes and in the second
half failed to register a field goal
until after 14 minutes had elapsed.
Center Ernie Raber, Bluffton ace,
was limited
score of the
to 14 points, his lowest
season.
Couple Weds In
Findlay Sunday
Kenneth Charles Stauffer of Find
lay, son of Emmet Stauffer of Bluff
ton and Miss Nana Bechtel, daugh
ter of Mrs. Laura Bechtel of Vanlue
were married in Findlay at the home
of the officiating minister Rev. W. P.
Alspach of the United Brethren
church Sunday afternoon at 2:00
o’clock.
Following a wedding trip th rough
southern Ohio they will reside tem
porarily at the home of the bride
groom’s aunt, Mrs. Florence Hamil
ton in Findlay. Both are employees
of the Ohio Oil company in Findlay.
Bluffton College Is On
WOSU Radio Program
Bluffton college will be one of
more than 20 Ohio colleges and uni
versities featured
program, “Campus Cavalcade,” to be
inaugurated at 11:30 a. m. this Sat
urday from WOSU in Columbus.
in a new radio
News items from the state’s var
ious colleges will be dramatized in
the half-hour program, which will
be a regular feature each Saturday.
Hospital Auxiliary
Membership Canvass
Biennial membership canvass of
the Woman’s Auxiliary of Bluffton
hospital will be held February 1 to
10, it was announced by officers of
the auxiliary the first of the week.
A house to house solicitation is plan
ned, they said.
Elimination of Morning Ses
sions Proves Popular and
Will be Continued
•parate Meetings for Men
and Women Next Year
Decision to continue a “stream
lined” program of activity, inaugura
ted at this year’s sessions, was made
during the business meeting closing
a two-day Bluffton Community In
stitute, held last Wednesday and
Thursday in the high school audit
orium.
Morning meetings were eliminated
at this year’s institute, a change
popular with those who attended,
and a further revision in procedure,
planned for next year, is the dis
continuance of separate sessions for
men’s and women’s organizations on
the afternoon of the second day.
Next year’s institute program, as
tentatively planned, will call for
afternoon and evening sessions on
the opening day and an afternoon
session on the second day. Men’s
and women's organizations will meet
jointly in the three sessions.
Also missing from this year’s in
stitute activities were the drafting
of resolutions, heretofore an import
ant feature of each year’s gathering.
The decision to eliminate resolutions
was made at the 1946
carried out this winter
time.
institute
for the
and
first
this
the
good at
Attendance was very
year’s two-day
program was unusually interesting
and varied, including talks by state
speakers, movies, music, plays, etc.
New officers elected for the men’s
institute organization include Ezra
Moser, president Homer Gratz, vice
president Wayne Zimmerman, secre
tary and an executive committee
consisting of the three officers plus
Milo Lora, Joe Thompson, Wilford
Steiner and Supt. of Schools Ralph
Lanham.
Women’s institute officers are Mrs.
Harvey Gratz, president Mrs. Elmer
Fett, vice-president Mrs. Ezra
Moser, secretary and an executive
committee made up of Mrs. Russell
Huber, Mrs. Albert Augsburger, Mrs.
Ray Marshall and the officers.
Tax Collection
Here Next
Week
can pay
for 1946
Bluffton area residents
first half real estate taxes
to representatives of the Allen coun
ty treasurer’s office at the Citizen’s
National bank, next Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Tax payments will be received dur
ing the regular banking hours on
the two days.
Wins Declamation
Joan Landes, Route 5, Lima, won
first place among seven contestants
in the district Prince of Peace decla
mation contest in Defiance, last Sun
day. Miss Landes will represent
this district in state competition
Columbus this week.
Orange Twp. To Keep
Bluffton Fire Service
Continuation of fire protection
service from the Bluffton fire de
partment at an annual fee of $250
was voted last week at a re-organi
zation meeting of the Orange
ship board of trustees.
M. S. Stewart was elected
president Ray Marshall is
president and Kenneth Dearth
third trustee,
clerk.
town-
board
vice
is the
James A. Gallant is
COMMUNITY NEED
WOULD BE FILLED
BY COLLEGE GYM
New $250,000 Structure Would
Be Ideal for Basketball
Tournaments
As Auditorium. Building
Would Have Accommo
dations for 1,800
such
funds
Bluffton’s contribution to
campus project.
seating capacity of 1,500
i events, the new gymnas­
With a
ium will be ideally suited for basket
ball tournaments and other indoor
sports events. Its two gymnasium
floors also will lend itself to the
community recreation program.
Used as an auditorium, with
seating accommodations for 1,800,
the building will be centrally located
in this area for music contests, com
munity gatherings, denominational
conferences and the like, in addition
to providing sufficient
pacity for events such
nual Messiah concert.
seating ca
as the an­
facilities by
Expansion of college
addition of the new gymnasium is
the first step in a program to make
Bluffton a larger school, attracting
a greater number of outside students,
a development that would be to the
benefit of Bluffton business interests
generally, it was pointed out.
Trap Shoot Sunday
At Bluffton Gun Club
Merchandise prizes are offered in
trap-shoot at 1 p. m. next Sunday
at the Bluffton Gun
north of Bluffton on
way.
a
sessions, and
The following
hospital:
Mr. and
Findlay, a
day. Mrs.
in
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
$2.
Grain (bushel prices)—Wheat
10 com $1.20 oats 78c soys $3.
Poultry—Heavy hens 25c heav
springers 27c leghorn hens 14c
stags 14c.
y
Eggs—Large whites 35c large
browns 38c mediums and pullets 30c.
Butterfat—63c.
club, two miles
the Dixie high-
Arrangements for
being made by Lloyd Hardwick,
president, and C. V. Stonehill, sec
retary-treasurer, of the gun club.
Ebenezer Chorus To
Sing “The Holy City”
The Ebenezer Mixed chorus will
present Gaul’s “Holy City” at the
church on Sunday night at 7:30
o’clock. Mrs. Milo Lora will direct
the chorus and Miss Mabel Amstutz
is accompanist.
,Soloists are: Soprano, Mrs. Harold
Diller contralto, Mrs. Francis Nis
wander tenor, Waldo Hofstetter
bass, Francis Niswander.
Births
births at Bluffton
Mrs.
boy,
Kenneth Krautter,
David Alan, Tues-
Krautter is the former
Lillian Huber of Bluffton.
Mr. and
ton, a boy,
day. Mrs.
Watkins.
Mrs. Kent Welty, Bluff
Bruce Leon, last Wednes
Welty is the former Alice
fayette, a
Mr. and
a boy, Franklin Weinhold.
Elzay is the former Betty Weinhold.
Mr. and Mrs.
bus Grove, a
Thursday.
Mrs,
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Evans,
Lafayette, twin girls, Marilyn Lou
and Carolyn Sue, Sunday.
Wm. Kohli, Colum
girl, Barbara Lee,
James Womack, To-
Mr. and Mrs.
ledo, a boy at that place. Mrs. Wo
mack is the former Maxine Businger
of Orange township.
Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Miser, Up
land, Calif., a boy, David J., at that
place, Jan. 8. They are former resi
dents here.
secretary of Bluffton college and
Mrs. Moser is the former June Bach
man, a student
Mr. Moser was field
BLUFFTON
A Good Place To Trade
NUMBER 41
UNBEATEN PIRATES
WIN H. S. LEAGUE
BASKETBALL TITLE
Bluffton Downs Wapakoneta
Tuesday Night to Clinch
First Place
Spectacular Record of 13 Un
broken Victories Piled
Up by Team
Bluffton High’s undefeated eagers
clinched the championship of the
Western Buckeye league Tuesday
night in topping Wapakoneta at
place, 48 to 33, for the Pirates’
consecutive win of the season.
that
13th
and
By turning back Bellefontane
Wapakoneta during the last week,
the Cotterman-coached outfit dis
posed of the only teams that had a
chance to tie Bluffton for the league
y one remain
lay, a contest
ert team that
start so far.
ht wins in the
sweep of honors
keye this school
hru an undefeat
st fall to win the
Western
in their
Bluffton
three league
trailing Wapak­
oneta at the close of the first period,
Tuesday night, then came back with
a scoring rush to sew up the deci
sion in the next twd periods.
Wapakoneta had an 8 to 4 lead at
one time in the first stanza, but the
Pirates had shaved the advantage to
one point at the end of the period
when the score stood 8 to 7. After
the Indians had gone out in front 13
to 9 at the opening of the second
quarter, the Bluffton crew finally
started rolling and leading at half*
i time, 25 to 15.
In the third quarter, the Pirates
stretched their lead to go out in
front, 34 to 22, as they went into the
closing period, and altho Coach Cot
terman used substitutions freely in
the last eight minutes Bluffton con
tinued to pull ahead.
Neil Schmidt, as usual, was top
scorer of the evening with 18 points,
Althaus and Kirtland each got nine
points and Sommer contributed sev
en. Wehner was high for the Indians
with 17 points.
In winning the league title, Bluff
ton in five games has scored 291
points, while loop foes were
209.
The scoring summary:
Bluffton
Schmidt
Stonehill
Pogue
Howe
Bracy
Althaus
Wilch
Kirtland
Reagan
the shoot are
Totals
Wapakoneta
getting
Mayor’s Notice
Monthly collection of ashes
rubish will start Thursday
and
will start Thursday noon.
Have everything in containers and
placed accessible for loading on the
town truck.
W. A .Howe, Mayor
RED CROSS KNITTING
The Bluffton Red Cross has a sup
ply of yam for knitting refugee gar
ments monstly for children and also
for knitting sweaters for
erans hospitals,
see Mrs.
street.
Ohio
products
Mrs. Donald Jolliff, La
girl, Monday.
Mrs. Howard Elzay, Ada,
Mr. and
use in vet
interested
S. Jackson
Those
Paul Studler,
of dairy
manufacturers
made bigger profits in the
war years than during prewar years.
A government survey of the earn
ings of eight Ohio companies show
they made an average profit of 7.6
per cent in 1941 and of 10.1 per cent
in 1943. Net worth of those com
panies nearly doubled in wartime.
The profits given were figured after
payment of taxes.
Shortages of some insecticides will
continue through 1947. Materials
containing either copper or lead
probably will be inadequate to meet
all demands, with the exception o£
copper sulphate. Nicotine supplies
will have to be parcelled out wisely
to meet demands of farmers for that
insect killer. Rotenone will be short,
but there will be adequate supplies
of pyrethrum. All the weed killers
except ammonium sulfamate probab
ly will be short.